There’s a story on mobile literature in the NY Times, taken from the International Herald Tribune which fortunately doesn’t require registration, and they mention Media Republic‘s mobile phone soap opera Jung-Zuid, complete with well-known stars and so on. I can’t read Dutch, […]

The ocean is restless today, its lips foaming and its waves piling higher and higher up the beach. The air is filled with fine drizzle and mist and it darkens early, leaving me wanting to make indoors as warmly human as possible.

As night falls and the students leave, the bookshelves slowly start stretching into the forest. Soon they will have replaced it completely. (Daylight is different.)

Angela Thomas, whose research is on young peoples’ experiences in virtual environments, is reading Planet Jemma, the get-girls-into-science project that the Online Caroline guys did after Online Caroline. She’s excited after her first email, and has signed up for other email narratives […]

I should probably keep my trap shut. But honestly.

Torill and Anders and Jon all respond to Mark’s lament for our blog cluster that I wrote about yesterday. I particularly like Torill’s point that while we then needed to build strong connections with other fresh researchers in our field, we can […]

Cyberworlds 2005 is to be held in Singapore in late November 2005, with abstracts due on May 16. I’m spending next Christmas in Perth with my family (yay!), and Singapore’s en route to Perth, but I guess late November’s a little early […]

Mark wonders whether blog discussions between bloggers have died out, lamenting the loss of the Scandinavian blog cluster of yore: me, Torill, Anja, Lisbeth, Anders and some honorary outside-Scandinavians. We all knew each other from conferences and most of us were working […]

Hanne-Lovise and I went to the Digital Play exhbition at the American Museum of the Moving Image yesterday. The exhibit consists of a series of games in their original form, and you can play them all, from Space Invaders and Asteroids (1979) […]

At the Digital Play exhibition, a few computers displayed “new narratives” and animations. One of the ones I liked best was Julia 1926, an “interactive” documentary about a woman with Alzheimers by Johannes Weymann, who has a website at Heltersk3lter. I put […]